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Literature
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Literature
A Turkey for Thanksgiving
by Eve Bunting
I Know an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
Over the River
and Through the Woods illustrated by
John Gurney
Sometimes It’s
Turkey---Sometimes It’s Feathers by
Lorna Balian
Arthur’s Thanksgiving by
Marc Brown
Farmer Goff and His
Turkey Sam by Brian Schattell
Best Thanksgiving Book by
Patricia Whitehead
Oh, What A
Thanksgiving by Steven Kroll
‘Twas the
Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
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Videos
A Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving
The Mouse on the
Mayflower
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Songs and Poems
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Alburquerque the Turkey
(tune of
:"O' My Darlin' Clementine")
Alburquerque
was a turkey,
And
he's feathered and he's fine.
And he
wobbles and he gobbles,
And
I'm awfully glad he's mine.
He's the best pet you can
get yet,
Better
than a dog or cat.
He's my Alburquerque Turkey
And
I'm awfully proud of that.
And my Alburquerque turkey
Is so cozy
in his bed.
'Cause for
our Thanksgiving dinner
We had Egg Foo Yung
instead.
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Mr. Turkey
(tune of Shortnin’ Bread)
I am Mr.
Turkey, Turkey, Turkey,
I am Mr.
Turkey, big and fat.
On my tail
are feathers, feathers, feathers.
On my tail
are feathers—what do you think of that?
When I
walk, I wobble, wobble, wobble.
And when I
talk I gobble, gobble, gobble!
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Turkey and
Dressing
(Are
You Sleeping?)
Turkey and dressing,
Turkey and dressing.
Pumpkin
pie! Pumpkin pie!
Everyone is humming.
Thanksgiving Day is
coming!
Yum, yum, yum!
Yum,
yum, yum! |
Thanksgiving Dinner
(tune: Frere Jacques)
We eat tur-key, we eat tur-key.
Oh, so good. Oh, so good.
Al-ways on Thanks-giv-ing, al-ways on Thanks-giv-ing
Yum-yum-yum! Yum-yum-yum!
Verse 2: Mashed
po-ta-toes. Mashed po-ta-toes.
(Repeat as in verse 1)
Verse 3: Pie and ice-cream.
Verse 4: Home-made bis-cuits
Verse 5: Tur-key, dress-ing
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Down on the Farm
(tune of Down by the Bay)
Down on the
farm where the turkeys are a-gobblin’.
They strut
and stomp, look so silly, hats a-bobbin’.
As they
dance and sing, as they dance and sing…
1.
Did you ever see a pig dancing a jig?
2.
Did you ever see a goat sailing a boat?
3.
Did you ever see a cow taking a bow?
4.
Did you ever see a hen writing with a pen?
5.
Did you ever see a goose dancing with a moose?
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The Turkey on the Farm
(tune of Wheels on the Bus)
The Turkey on the farm says, "Gobble, gobble, gobble;
Gobble, gobble, gobble;
Gobble, gobble, gobble."
The Turkey on the farm says, "Gobble, gobble, gobble"
On Thanksgiving Day.
The farmer on the farm goes chop, chop, chop;
Chop, chop, chop; chop,
chop, chop
The farmer on the farm goes chop, chop, chop
On Thanksgiving Day.
The turkey on the farm says "Please help me!!
Please help me!! Please help me!!"
The turkey on the farm says "Please help me!!
On Thanksgiving Day.
The children on the farm say "Come and hide,
Come
and hide, come and hide."
The children on the farm say "Come and hide"
On Thanksgiving Day.
The wife on the farm looks all around,
All
around, all around.
The wife on the farm looks all around
On Thanksgiving Day.
The family on the farm eat Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The family on the farm eat Kentucky Fried
Chicken
On Thanksgiving Day.
The Turkey on the farm says, "Gobble, gobble, gobble;
Gobble, gobble, gobble;
Gobble, gobble, gobble."
The Turkey on the farm says, "Gobble, gobble, gobble"
On Thanksgiving Day.
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The Turkey Dance
(sung to Turkey in the Straw)
Oh, you turkey to the left (two steps to the left)
And
you turkey to the right (two steps to the right)
Then you heel and toe (do motion with foot)
And you scratch with all your might. (scratch with
foot)
Now you flap your turkey wings (put thumbs in
armpits and flap)
While
your head goes bobble,bobble. (wobble head)
Turn around and then you say, (turn around)
"Gobble, gobble, gobble!"
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Six
Little Turkeys
(Six Little Ducks)
Six little turkeys that I once knew,
Fat ones, skinny ones there were too.
But the one little turkey with the funny red wattle,
He led the others with his gobble, gobble, gobble.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
Gobble, gobble, gobble.
He led the others with his gobble, gobble, gobble.
Over the rocks and through the trees,
Turkeys wobbling in the breeze.
But the one little turkey with the funny red wattle,
He led the others with his gobble, gobble, gobble.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
Gobble, gobble, gobble.
He led the others with his gobble, gobble, gobble.
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I Eat
Turkey
(Frere Jacques)
I eat turkey, Point to self)
I eat turkey. (Point to self again)
Yes, I do, (Nod head)
Yes, I do.
(Nod head)
Turkey in my tummy, Rub tummy)
Yummy, yummy, yummy.
(Rub tummy)
Good for me, (Point to self)
Good for you. (Point to others)
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Joe
Scruggs Turkey Song
(Tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic)
There's a turkey in the back yard and he's really
getting fat.
There's a turkey in the back yard and he's really
getting fat.
There's a turkey in the back yard and he's really
getting fat.
'Cause he eats corn all day.
Chorus:
I don't want to eat the turkey,
I don't want to eat the turkey,
I don't want to eat the turkey,
On Thanksgiving Day.
We bought him from a former and he's now become my
pet...
And he comes when I call his name.
My mother's on a diet and she should be eating
fish...
So my turkey may get to stay.
I hid my daddy's hatchet in the woodshed out in
back...
So my turkey will get to stay.
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Turkey Pokey
(Hokey Pokey)
You put your right wing in.
You put your right wing out.
You put your right wing in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the turkey pokey
And you turn your self around.
That's what it's all about.
Additional verses:
Left wing (left arm)
Drumsticks (legs)
Stuffing (tummy)
Wattle (head)
Tail feathers (bottom)
Turkey body (whole self)
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Thanksgiving Colors
Orange is a pumpkin.
Yellow is the corn.
Brown is the turkey
With stuffing to adorn.
Red are the cranberries.
Green are the beans.
Five delicious colors-
In a feast of my dreams.
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I'm Glad I'm Not a Turkey
Oh, I'm glad I'm not a
turkey,
A turkey, a turkey,
Oh, I'm glad I'm not a
turkey,
On Thanksgiving Day.
They stuff you and bake
you,
And then they all taste
you.
Oh, I'm glad I'm not a
turkey,
On Thanksgiving Day.
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Thanksgiving
by Ivy Eastwick
Thank You for all my hands can hold-
Apples red and melons gold,
Yellow corn, both ripe and sweet,
Peas and beans, so good to eat!
Thank You for all my eyes can see-
Lovely sunlight, field and tree,
White cloud-boats in sea-deep sky,
Soaring bird and butterfly.
Thank You for all my ears can hear-
Birds' song echoing far and near,
Songs of little stream, big sea,
Cricket, bullfrog, duck and bee!
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Student/Class
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Make a class book by doing an interactive writing
sentence to illustrate each food the old lady ate. For example, “She
ate pie.” (Let the children help compose and sound out the words for
each sentence.) Students collaborate to draw food pictures for each
page.
There is a storytelling apron that students can wear
and feed the food pieces to the old lady. This apron can be
purchased from Lakeshore Learning. I used photos from this to
illustrate each page of our book.


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If You Meet a Turkey
(adapted
from Kim's classbooks):
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/seasonal_related.html#Turkey
This is
adaptation of the Wright Book, "If You Meet a Dragon. Glue a turkey
cutout (I used an Ellison die-cut turkey) to each page.
Use a real feather to “tickle” the turkey on each
page. Make a pocket for the inside cover of the book as a place to
store the feather.
If you meet a
turkey,
Tickle his
feathers.
Tickle his
nose.
Tickle his
wattle.
Tickle his
toes.
Tickle his
tummy.
Tickle his
chin.
And that will
be
The end of
him!
(On the
last page, cut the turkey in half vertically and glue to the right
edge of the page so it appears the turkey is running away.)

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I Eat
Corn
(source unknown)
Cut
pictures/labels
from a Cornflakes cereal box and a corn tortilla bag. Get pictures
of corn dogs, corn on the cob, and corn muffins. Use these pictures
to illustrate the sentence on each page:
I eat Corn Flakes for breakfast.
I eat corn dogs for lunch.
I eat corn on the cob for dinner.
I eat popcorn, crunch, crunch.
I eat corn muffins for a treat.
I eat candy corn, how neat.
I think corn
is good for you.
I give thanks for corn, don't you?
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The
Turkey Trick
(source unknown)
This is a patterned writing activity for practicing
nouns, verbs, describing words, and quotation marks. Each turkey
disguises itself as another animal to fool the farmer. It goes well with the song "Five Fat Turkeys are We", a
song about turkeys hiding from the farmer and fooling him. Make
three columns on the board: Animal Names, Animal Actions, and Animal
Sounds and then brainstorm ideas for
This is an example:
I could be a __________.
(pig)
I could ____________. (roll
in the mud)
"_____, ______," (oink, oink) said the turkey.
"Oh!" said the farmer.
"It must be a _________!"
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Turkey's Week
(source unknown)
This is an adaptation of the book, "Cookie's Week".
Make up a story about a turkey and the days leading up to
Thanksgiving.
The children work in groups to illustrate each page.
For example:
On Sunday, Turkey ran away from the farm.
On Monday he flew to Hawaii.
On Tuesday he sat on the beach and ate pineapple,
On Wednesday he…
On Thanksgiving Day, he…
On Friday, Turkey …
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Tell Me About Turkeys
(Teacher’s Helper, Nov/Dec/Jan 1998-99)
This is a
factual book about turkeys. The booklet is round in shape and you
add a few touches to make the cover look like a turkey. Two plastic
forks are taped to the back of the book. The prongs hang down at the
bottom and look like the turkey's feet. Adorable!
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Indian, Indian, What do you
see?
(from
Linda at http://www.kinderteacher.com)
Indian, Indian,
What do you see?
I see the Mayflower
looking at me.
Mayflower, Mayflower,
What do you see?
I see Plymouth Rock,
waiting for me.
Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock,
What do you see?
I see a teepee close by the
sea.
Teepee, Teepee,
What do you see?
I see some Pilgrims
standing near me.
Pilgrims, Pilgrims,
What do you see?
We see turkey and
cranberries,
Corn and Pumpkin pie,
A Thanksgiving Day dinner
is what we spy.
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Other Literacy
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I Know
an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
(Idea from Mary Martell)
Make an old
lady by enlarging a basic shape of a woman. Cut out her mouth and
her belly and laminate her. Hot glue a clear garbage bag to the back
of her mouth that hangs down to her belly. Make pictures of each
food item in the story for the kids to use to feed the Old Lady.
You can also make a word card (pie, rolls, cider, etc.) to feed her
after they feed her the food pictures. Later the kids match the food
word to the picture. Make enough food pictures (like three pies,
three rolls, etc.) so several kids come up when it's their turn to
feed the old lady.
I also made
individual “old ladies” for each student by taping a ziplock
sandwich bag behind her cut-out mouth. They each had miniature food
pictures to feed her for retelling the story at school and at home.
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Thanksgiving Book from
Kinderlit


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Small Group Turkey Game
Give each
child a lunch bag with a turkey cutout attached to the front.
Program index cards with words or letters that need reinforcement.
Place cards in the center of the playing area. In turn, players draw
a card. If they can read it, they “stuff” their turkey with the
word. Play continues until all of the cards are used. Students count
the cards in their bags to determine the winner.
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I Am Thankful Turkey
Attach a
turkey body to a construction paper background. On the body, write,
”I am thankful I can read these words.” Write words on feathers.
Students can glue on feathers of words they can read.

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Turkey Toss
Stuff a
lunch bag with newspaper and staple shut. Attach a turkey cutout to
one side of the bag. Hang the bag turkey by a string suspended from
a chart stand. Play a flashcard game and give each child a beanbag
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Feast for Ten
by
Cathryn Falwell
This website has a lesson plan and rhyming picture cards of items
from story.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/Feast_for_10_Lesson.pdf |
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It’s
Thanksgiving
by Jack Prelutsky
This is a
book of poems and the website below has a lesson plan and
pictures of what Pilgrims were grateful for.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/Its_Thanksgiving_Lesson.pdf
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“A Turkey for Thanksgiving” worksheets for
story recall, characters and sequencing
Teacher’s
Helper, Nov/Dec/Jan 1997-98
Thanksgiving Food Match
Teacher’s
Helper, Nov/Dec/Jan 1999-2000
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Math
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Roll a Turkey Game
Students need a blank sheet
of paper. They work in small groups and take turns rolling a die to
make a complete turkey, including a body, a head, a face with a
wattle, 2 legs, 2 wings and 4 feathers. The first one to finish
drawing his turkey is the winner!
Click here to print out the
Roll a
Turkey game.
Click here to
print a pre-drawn
dotted
head and body. This would be helpful for the students if they
roll a 3, 4, 5, or 6 before they've drawn the turkey head or a body.
It gives them a point of reference to draw their own wings, feet,
face and feathers.
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Science
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Incorporate a plant/seeds unit by planting a corn
seed, popcorn, and candy corn. Make predictions on what will grow
and then watch their progress! Some kids will actually think a
candy corn tree may grow from the candy corn. After a few weeks make
a Venn diagram comparison of between real corn and candy corn. |
Put an ear of corn in a pot filled with potting soil
half covered with the soil. It will grow. Be sure to use field
corn or Indian corn.
Or just take an ear of Indian corn and place it in a
pie tin with water. The kernels of corn actually start growing!
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Social
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Mayflower
Re-enactment
This was an idea
from Sharon in Florida. Nine classes combined to create a
student-formed Mayflower.
Making the Mayflower (the boys):
Line up 2 rows of boys to be the boat. If you have an odd number of
boys, let the odd one be the front of the boat. Have each set of 2
boys (standing side-by-side) lock opposite arms from boy 1's
shoulder to boy 2's shoulder. Then each boy holds onto the shoulder
of the boy directly in front of him.
THIS MAKES THE MAYFLOWER BOAT.
Boarding the Mayflower (the girls):
The girls in your class are the Pilgrims. Have the girls crawl under
the archway the boys have made with their arms. They will be inside
the boat.
Then the sea gets a LITTLE ROUGH and the "Mayflower" GENTLY rocks
back and forth. The boat can move VERY SLOWLY FORWARD so the
"Pilgrims" have time to move up too, going to America.
Then the "Mayflower" gently bumps into PLYMOUTH ROCK (a cabinet,
chair or table from your room). The "Pilgrims" get off (crawl out
from tunnel made by boys archway). The boys then become the Native
Americans and greet the Pilgrims.
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Thanksgiving
Story Retelling Bracelet

Use
these colored beads to retell
the story of the first Thanksgiving.
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First brown
bead represents the
Pilgrims
leaving England for religious freedom
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Next
white
bead represents the sails on the Mayflower
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3 blue beads for the long trip over the ocean
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1 green for when they spy land
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3 white (or clear glitter) for the snow during the
long winter
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1 green for the arrival of spring
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1 tan for the Native Americans who helped the
Pilgrims
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4 beads for the foods served at the first
Thanksgiving
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1 red for cranberries,
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1 yellow for corn
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1 brown for turkey
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1 orange for pumpkins
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Art/Craft Activities
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Handprint Turkeys
Paint child’s palm and thumb brown and each finger a
different color. When dry, paint the tip of the index finger red and
put on thumbprint for the turkey’s waddle. Use orange marker to make
beak and feet and black marker for eyes. Add this poem beneath the
turkey handprint:
This isn’t just a turkey,
As anyone can see.
I made it with my little hand
Which is a part of me.
It comes with lots of love
Especially to say:
I hope you have a very
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
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Family Gift Bag
Cut an eight inch circle of
muslin. Have children use fabric crayons or permanent markers to
decorate the circle. Use saran wrap to package a small amount of
popcorn kernels and wrap into a ball shape. Fold the muslin circle
up around the popcorn and tie with ribbon or yarn. Tie a small tag
to the ribbon printed with the following verse:
This is a tiny little sack.
Inside you’ll find a popcorn snack.
Outside there is a bit of art
To say you’re always in my heart.
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Coffee Filter
Turkey
Use eyedroppers to drop colored water (from food
coloring) on to a coffee filter. While this filter dries, glue
colored feathers along the upper rim of a second filter. Glue the
colored filter over the plain filter, sandwiching the ends of the
feathers between. Glue on a circular head, wiggle eyes, waddle, beak
and feet cutouts.
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Turkey Napkin Holder
Use brown construction paper for a body, red for the
head, and orange for the legs and beak. Cut out the pieces. Glue the
bottom of the head piece to the body piece. Fold the beak in half
and glue one side to the head. Glue on wiggly eyes. Attach the legs
to the back of the bottom of the body. Glue this note to the front
of the body section after creasing the wings forward.
Turkey on the table.
What do you say?
Yummy, yummy, yummy,
Yummy all day.
Turkey in my tummy.
What do you say?
I ate too much
On Thanksgiving Day!
Cut a toilet paper roll in half and hot glue it to
the back of the body section to enable the turkey to stand up. Buy
colorful napkins and stuff the napkin (fan it somewhat) into the
toilet paper roll to serve as the turkey’s feathers.
OK, so the
napkin holder on the right is pathetic, but he has been living in a
box in my basement for years. Pretend he has 2 eyes, a poem on his
tummy and a colorful napkin sticking up behind his head. At least
you get a visual--kind of!
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Family Turkey
Homework
I send home a
turkey blackline and ask the students' families to help their child
decorate the turkey. It's always amazing how creative they are,
using beads, paint, cereal, glitter paint, pasta, colored popsicle
sticks, silk leaves, pompoms, feathers and fun foam shapes. Last
year I even had a football player turkey!
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I Am Thankful Quilt
For quilted
squares, children glue precut pieces (1 and one-fourth inches
square) over a quilt pattern. A decorated die-cut turkey was glued
in the center. On the other square, the children tell what they are
thankful for and draw a picture of it.


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Turkey Hat
Trace two of
the turkey bodies. Draw on a wattle, beak and eye. Cut 4 colorful
feather strips 2 inches by 12 inches. Staple turkey together at
heand and back. Fold feathers and glue on each side of the turkey's
back.

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Turkey
Headband
http://family.go.com/crafts/cutpaste/craft/turkeyhat/
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Watercolor
Turkeys
(from Linda at www.kinderteacher.com)
Children
watercolor the turkey bodies. Glue a photo of each child on for the
turkey face.
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Paper Plate
Turkey

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Block Turkey
(from Linda at
http://www.kinderteacher.com)
Children paint a wood block
(a 2x4 cut into approximately 8" lengths) brown. Silk flower leaves
are hot glued on for the tail feathers. Washers painted white are
glued on for eyes. Felt is used for the beak and wattle. Paint
wooden spools brown and slip them on to a 2" wide strip of
fabric (approximately 24" long). Tie a knot at each end. Finally, a
knot is tied in the middle of the strip and it is hot glued to the
bottom of the block for the turkey's legs.
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Wooden
Turkey
These two pieces are cut
and then painted. They fit together so the turkey is free-standing.


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Hand and
Footprint Turkey
Trace both
feet on brown and glue one over the other. Trace hand 6 to 8 times
on red, yellow and orange construction paper. Draw orange feet,
yellow beak and red wattle. Glue on wiggly eyes
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Turkey
Dressing
This is a family project
to disguise a turkey so he won't be eaten at Thanksgiving. Begin by
sending home a turkey outline without feathers. The turkey at this
link would be a good one to use, once you cut off the feathers:
http://teachers.net/gazette/NOV02/images/turkey.pdf
The parent letter below
combines ideas contributed by Sharon (FL) and Cathye (TX).
Turkey Dressing
(Holiday Family Project)
It's time to have fun creating a very unusual bird. As a family,
disguise Tom Turkey so that he won't be eaten for Thanksgiving! You
may choose to dress your turkey as a doctor, an astronaut, a farmer,
a cheerleader, a ballerina, a clown, etc... Be creative and use any
materials you have at home. Everyone gets to help.
Cut out the enclosed
turkey and mount him on cardboard or heavy paper. Make it very
original and have fun!
Please, help us save these turkeys! The turkey homework is due on
Tuesday, November 18, but you may send it in earlier. When
your Tom Turkey is incognito, he can "hide out" in our classroom!
Happy Turkey Dressing!!!
This poem can be
used when you display the turkeys on the bulletin board:
My name is Tom Turkey
And I'm afraid as I can
be.
I'm wearing my disguise
So you won't catch me.
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Bulletin Boards
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Ears Lookin' at You Kid!
Give each child an outline of a piece of corn on the
cob and have them dip their fingers in different autumn colors to
put their fingerprints all over the corn cob. The fingerprints will
look like little corn kernels. After they dry, add a corn husk at
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Thankful Turkey
Make a giant turkey. Take long strips of
construction paper (about 2"X9”) and glue on a piece of paper that
says "Thank you for _________”, said Jake Turkey. Glue a small
photo of the child at the very end of the "feather".
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We
each made a square for our turkey quilt.
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Recipes
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Butter
Use a half pint of heavy whipping cream and a dash
of salt. Put into a container with a lid. Put heavy tape around the
lid to prevent leaks. Each student counts to 20 as he shakes the
cream and then passes it on around the circle. Shake until cream
turns to butter. (You will have to pour off a little liquid.) Serve
to students on crackers. They can chant one of these poems as you
shake.
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Shake, shake, shake,
Butter we will make.
Churn, churn, churn,
Now it is your turn!
~Author Unknown
Making Butter Boogie
Shake it up
Shake it down
Shake it, shake it all around.
Shake it high
Shake it low
Shake it, shake it to and fro.
Shake it over
Shake it under
Pretty soon, you'll have butter!
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Cornucopia 1
Use a half graham cracker as a base. Use frosting
or peanut butter to adhere a bugle to the cracker. Fill with Trix
cereal fruit pieces.
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Cornucopia 2
Ask parents to help contribute cornucopia fillings,
such as popcorn, raisins, nuts, bite-size cookies and small candies.
Fill a waffle cone cornucopia with these items.
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Standing
Turkey Cookie
1 Oreo cookie
1 red hot cinnamon candy
1 malted milk ball
Chocolate frosting
Candy corn pieces (approximately 8-10)
Open the Oreo, leaving the cream filling on one side.
Attach the cinnamon candy (turkey head) to the malted milk ball
(turkey body) using chocolate frosting as glue. Use a dab of
chocolate frosting to attach the turkey body to the cream filling
side of the oreo. Spread chocolate frosting on the other piece of
Oreo. Arrange candy corn pieces on chocolate frosting with the wide
end of candy along the outer edge. Attach each turkey tail behind
the turkey body, using the frosting. Store in refrigerator.
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Turkey Cookie
1 Oreo cookie
1 red and 2 orange mini M&M's
1 malted milk ball (or Hershey kiss)
Chocolate frosting
Candy corn pieces (approximately 5-6)
Cover one side of the Oreo
with chocolate frosting.
Attach the the malted milk ball (turkey body) near near the center
of the cookie. Arrange candy corn pieces on chocolate frosting with
the wide end of candy along the outer edge. Put a large dab of
frosting above the malt ball (turkey head). Push the side of the red
M&M into this as the wattle. Push orange M&M's (feet) into frosting
below body.
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Albert's Thanksgiving Pizza
Here is the recipe for Albert's Pumpkin Pizza Pie
(found on the back of the book Albert's Thanksgiving by Leslie
Tyron)
3 lbs. sweet pie dough (recipe in next box)
3 cups mashed pumpkin or one 29 ounce can pumpkin
(not pie filling)
3 eggs
1 cup sugar or honey
1 tsp.pumpkin pie spice
1/3 cup whipping cream
pinch of salt
1 cup of whipping cream whipped with 1-2 tbsp. sugar
and 1 tsp. vanilla (or use one can of whipped cream)
1/4 cup each for each pie:
chocolate chips or
butterscotch chips or mint chips
or white chocolate chips
candied nuts
raisins
mini marshmallows
Method:
Divide dough into 3 pieces and on wax paper roll each
into a 12 inch round about 1/8 inch thick. Put on a baking sheet or
pizza pan. Next, in a bowl mix pumpkin, eggs, sugar, spice, cream,
and salt until well blended. Spread 1 cup on each pizza dough,
leaving about 1/2 inch from the edge. Bake in preheated 350 degree
oven for about 20-25 minutes. When it comes out of the oven and
cools slightly, decorate with whipped cream, chips, candied nuts,
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Albert's Pumpkin Pie Pizza Dough
(makes
3 pizzas)
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 lb. butter or margarine
2/3 cup sugar
3 whole eggs or 6 yolks
Method:
Cream the butter with the sugar in a mixing bowl,
blending well. Then add the egg and slowly mix the flour and salt a
little at a time. Mix until a smooth dough is formed. Chill for a
couple of hours or overnight. This dough can be made in a food
processor. (It also freezes well, but divide in three pieces before
freezing.)
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Turkey Cheese Ball
16 oz cream cheese, softened
1 c shredded Cheddar Cheese
2 c sunflower seeds
1 bunch small carrots with tops
1 bunch celery with leaves
1 apple
Combine the cream cheese with the cheddar cheese.
Form into a ball and roll in the sunflower seeds. Chill in
refrigerator for a couple of hours. The celery and carrots become
the turkeys feathers by pushing them into the cheese ball. The head
of the turkey is made by attaching small pieces of apple and celery
to the ball with toothpicks. Serve on crackers after removing the
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Math
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Counting Corn Booklet
Have children make corn counting books by gluing corn
kernels on pages that have the numbers 1 through 5 written on them. |
Bean and Corn Patterns
Use several varieties of dried beans and corn (or
Indian corn) kernels to create patterns. |
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Popcorn and Cranberry Patterns
Give each child a large needle and heavyweight thread
to string popcorn and cranberries in a pattern. Hang the strings
outdoors in trees for birds to eat.
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Favorite Thanksgiving Foods Graph
Create a class graph by letting children select their
favorite food, such as turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberries
or pumpkin pie.
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Favorite Popcorn Flavor Graph
At this time of year you can buy those cans of
popcorn with 3 different flavors of popcorn in them. Taste each
flavor of popcorn and graph the results. Use the popcorn bag picture
on http://www.abcteach.com for them to color and label with their favorite
kind and then do a graph on the floor.
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Least
Favorite Thanksgiving Foods Graph
After Thanksgiving at home
or a school feast, create
a class graph by letting children select their least
favorite (I Didn't Like It) food, such as turkey, stuffing,
potatoes, cranberries or pumpkin pie.
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Turkey Glyph
Use your own
turkey pattern or use this one for the glyph:
http://abcteach.com/Thanksgiving/turkpattern.htm
Students
follow these directions to color their turkey:
Boys orange beak, girls; yellow beak
Yellow feet has siblings; Red feet does not
have siblings
Body: like to eat turkey, brown; doesn't like
it, black
Color the turkey's eyes the color of your
eyes.
Now, cut out the turkey and glue it on a piece of
construction paper. Choose your favorite color of paper.
Color and cut out the feathers. You will need the same amount of
feathers as your age.
Put these
turkeys on the bulletin board and post this note to ask visitors to
locate a student's turkey from the clues.
Can You Find My
Turkey?
My name is ________________.
I am a __________.
I _____________________ siblings.
My favorite color is _______________.
I ____________________ to eat turkey.
My eyes are _________________.
I am ______ years old.
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Do You Like The Butter We
Made?
After shaking cream to
make butter and tasting it, we used tally marks to count the number
of children who liked the butter and the number who didn't like its
taste.
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Then we converted the
tally marks into a graph.
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Feast Ideas
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The following feasting
ideas are some suggestions I've saved over the past few years. Maybe
something will work for your class! |
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Dressing Up
Make
a Pilgrim hat or bonnet and a Native American headband and vest.
Then allow the children to choose one to wear to the feast, and they
have an extra something to take home.
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Friendship Fruit Salad
Each child brings some fruit from home (these could
be sorted and graphed). Then we make a huge fruit salad with
everyone's contribution. Serve with homemade butter
and cornbread. |
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Games and
Songs
Sing
some Thanksgiving/turkey songs you have learned, such as 10 Little
Indians and A Turkey Is A Funny Bird.
Play
some old fashioned games, such as potato relays,
races, and a turkey trot. |
Turkey
Dogs
These
are just hot dogs, but stick a turkey head and tail feathers on
toothpicks in the hot dog on the bun to look like a turkey. Have the
children color them a few days before. Parents can bring in a salad
or dessert for the feast.
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Parent
Pilgrims
Students wear Indian
costumes they've made at school (headbands, grocery store vests,
beads). Parents are invited to
be the Pilgrims. Children share some songs/poems
about
Thanksgiving and make an I Am Thankful book to read
to their parents before the feast.
Set up long tables for serving the food and spread
many long table cloths on the floor as a place for children and
parents to eat. Serve popcorn, corn bread mini muffins, pumpkin
pudding with whipped cream, and apple or cranberry juice. Make the
pies and corn muffins at school. Parents are asked to help by
sending in paper goods, canned pumpkin, cornbread mix, tablecloths, whipped cream, and juice.
Send
home a form announcing the feast at the beginning of November. Have
a cut off at the bottom asking how many will be attending and if
they would be able to help by sending in something. About two weeks
before the feast assign the parents who offered one item to
send it in.
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Tasting
Feast
(from Ardis K. in MI)
To feed an entire class of about 20 parents sign up
to bring in:
ONE box prepared Stove Top dressing
ONE 20 oz canned corn
ONE large pumpkin pie
ONE bowl of mashed potatoes (about 6 lg potatoes)
ONE can of cranberry sauce (mix in a wee bit of
sugar) ONE mini-cornbread muffin (made from 1 box of mix) ONE pound
of deli sliced turkey (several parents split the cost)
ONE jar/can of turkey dressing
ONE can of whipped cream
Apple juice to drink
The class knows that they will only be Tasting - not
gorging! They get ONLY one small spoonful of each item. IF they
finish it and want more, they can have more until it's gone. We let
the 'slab' of turkey deli slices lay on top of each other and just
score it into about 1" square pieces. All food comes to school in a
microwavable container. The parents warm the food in the Staff
Lounge's microwave during recess. Then we sit down to our Tasting
Feast. The kids know they're only getting a tiny bit and they have
permission to just TRY it -- it's ok if they don't LIKE it. And so
often.....they do finish it. We have very very little waste. Again,
since they only get a BIT (and that's really really hard for the
parents to just put such a little bit on the plates), the kids who
really want more are able to have more. A-n-d....many kids will
finish their little 'bit' - even though they don't care for it and
don't want anymore. Afterwards, either later that day or the next
(we always have our feast on the day before our last day), we vote
on 2 graphs -- Our Favorite Feast Food and Our Didn't Like It Feast
Food. (again - giving permission to them to 'not like' something!
(If you would like further
information email Ardis at
aok1mucs@ucs.misd.net) |
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Kinder-Cookers
We serve only food that we've cooked ourselves. Some
of the items on our menus in recent years have included: applesauce,
cranberry sauce, microwave popcorn, pumpkin muffins, corn muffins
(mini sizes on both), slice & bake pumpkin cookies (from Halloween)
and apple juice. |